All In Startup: Launching a New Idea When Everything Is on the Line

Chapter 29People Can’t Help Themselves from Sharing When You Bring Up a Migraine Problem

It had taken Owen a week, but he’d finally figured Sam out. Yes, she may have been a successful entrepreneur. Yes, she was wicked smart. Yes, she was fun. But more than all of that, she was rich and bored. And if there was anything Owen had learned from hanging around the consulting firm, it was that bored, rich people loooooooove to solve other people’s problems because they don’t have any real problems of their own.

Owen remembered his former boss for this eccentricity. His biggest problem was keeping his affair with the aerobics instructor at his club away from his wife. Not an unsolvable problem, in Owen’s opinion, because he could have called it off at any moment. And even though his boss was pretty obviously unsatisfied with marriage and relationships and whatever, that didn’t stop him from trying to be Owen’s dating coach.

After a year of working at the consulting firm, Owen finally learned that when he wanted to leave work early, all he had to do was go tell the boss that he was going to pop out of the office early to get ready for a date. Without fail, the boss would want to know every detail about the girl and the date. How many times had Owen used that excuse before he met Lisa? Probably once a month, minimum. In fact, he hesitated to say anything about Lisa around the office for some time because it meant he had to come up with new excuses to leave work at 4:30 P.M. The boss ...